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| 09 May 2012 |
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This week's issue brought to you by: Wipro |
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Palo Alto Film Festival
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SandHill is proud to be a sponsor of the Palo Alto Int’l Film Festival, a four-day festival that takes place September 27-30, 2012. PAIFF has a strong technology focus that features a film series, talk series, interactive art expo, and an educational youth program.
The film program will showcase 50 films that utilize the latest technology in cinema, take creative risks, or tell stories about science and innovation.
Submit your film! Deadline is May 15
Films must be about technology or use a new technology that hasn’t been used before.
Buy Passes - 25% off all passes until May 31
The festival’s speaker series will feature professionals from companies like Pixar, LucasFilms, NASA, YouTube, Twitter, venture capital firms, and emerging startups. The festival also includes an interactive art expo showcasing cross-platform projects, games and installations that utilize new digital and online tools. Plus there will be free films every night - one sponsored by SandHill.
Click here for more information. | |
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This Week's Sponsor
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Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360-degree view of “Business through Technology” - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. Recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation and an organization-wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and clients across 54 countries. Wipro is harnessing its Product Engineering expertise, to marry it with available technology advances and much-needed business model changes to enable ISVs to accelerate their product life cycles, and hence get products to market faster. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com or contact us at info@wipro.com |
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Also new on SandHill this week |
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Big Data and Insight as a Service
Insight as a Service describes cloud-based, action-oriented, analytic-driven applications and solutions that operate on Big Data. Evangelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital, explains the connectors, components and application types in Insight as a Service. He also highlights examples of ISVs providing these types of applications. Read the story
Building Customer Loyalty Is Better than Renting It
Have you discontinued a popular incentive-based loyalty program and found that your “loyal” customers subsequently went away? Genuinely loyal customers are the opposite of bought-off customers, says Bruce La Fetra of La Fetra Consulting. He discusses the drivers of true customer loyalty and four ways it benefits a company. Read the story
Startup Profile: Q&A with trendslide’s Co-Founder
Have you heard of trendslide yet? It’s a mobile business intelligence company that developed an innovative application to help companies get a pulse on their business - “insight on the go in 10 seconds flat.” Co-founder Jeffrey Vocell describes the trendshare platform and shares tips for startup success. Read the story
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Sand Hill Group Webcast |
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Wolters Kluwer and Model N Leverage Business Discovery “Powered by QlikView”
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM EST
Join QlikView OEM Partners: Jason Wreath, Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Wolters Kluwer, Ajay Dawar, Sr. Product Manager and Daniel Amezcua, Director of Engineering with Model N in a panel discussion led by Sand Hill Group President, M.R. Rangaswami, as they discuss how their customers’ demand for greater insight turned into their need to leverage a unique end-user driven Business Intelligence platform, better known as QlikView Business Discovery from QlikTech. Leveraging the market leadership position of the QlikView Business Discovery platform, complementary partners can benefit from increased revenue, customer satisfaction, and recognition in the BI industry.
In this webcast panelists will:
- Discuss their customers' needs for information
- Review the unique advantage of their "Powered by QlikView" solution and QlikTech partnership
- Demonstrate their dashboard solution
Click here to register. |
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News & Resources
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The Pulse
The Pulse is the newsletter of Sandhill.com, the online business strategy destination for the software, cloud, and mobile ecosystem.
Publisher: M.R. Rangaswami
Editor: Kathleen Goolsby
To subscribe, click here.
SandHill.com is published by Sand Hill Group. which provides investment and management advice to emerging leaders in the $600 billion enterprise software, services and solutions market.
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